Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

My definition of success is control.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

If it's good art, it's good.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.